Old person here. Back when I was a teenager, before you could stream movies and almost nobody had a "big screen tv", we would often just drive to a movie theater and pick something to watch based on the posters on the wall. We did end up watching a lot of shitty movies, but also a lot of great movies we otherwise never would have seen. There was also something abouy going into a movie having absolutely no idea what it was about or if it was any good. Overall, I miss the experience.
IMO, TypeScript is the only good thing Microsoft has ever produced (well their old corded mouse was decent). It emits readable JS, given that I don't see the risk. If they do something bad with it then I can just work off the compiled JS files.
Stallman is looking at the naming as an issue of who gets credit. For everyone else, the point of the OS having a name is primarily to denote where something can be run. If I have some software package that "runs on Linux" that means it runs on Linux, whether or not it depends on some other available software that also runs on Linux. That is why Android isn't "Linux", even though it uses the Linux kernel - Android software depends on things that are only available on Android. Likewise, "GNU" doesn't mean anything, software written for "GNU/Linux" will not run on Windows even if you have all the GNU tools installed, whereas it's likely to run on Linux with musl and busybox.
The difference for me is that I've never had to jiggle any of my 1/4" cables to make them stop crackling, and then stay absolutely still so it doesn't happen again.
Sad but completely foreseeable, or at least it should have been by them. Of all tht things that could hinder Linux adoption, requirements to use Windows-only proprietary software is the one thing that can't be overcome in a reasonable fashion but should also have been easy to quantify. What were they expecting to happen when their organization apparently depended on hundreds of different Windows-only applications?
The laptop with the "best" keyboard is one of the ones that has a mechanical keyboard in it. They exist, but it's a bit impractical. Short of that it comes down to how much you're willing to sacrifice in terms of size and weight, and that will be different for everyone.
The same thing that happens when a developer loses interest in a project. Either someone steps up to maintain it or it sits in stasis until then. It's certainly a better situation to be in than to be stuck with closed source stuff after the company goes under or stops supporting it.
Maybe there isn't a void. I've never lived in a "food desert", but I've been poor, and I would never buy produce. It's expensive. It goes bad quickly, so a lot of it just ends up getting thrown out, unless you're making frequent trips to buy them, which is expensive and time consuming not to mention the time-consuming preparation. Every now and then the produce is bad right out of the store and the money was just wasted.
I've never had a can of Spaghettios go to waste because it was rotten on the inside, or because I was too busy to use it within three days after I bought it.
The difference is that when I buy a season of a show, I'm buying a season of a show, not a pile of shit that also happens to contain one show that I want to watch.
So they already had the curved screens that make it impossible to use a glass screen protector, and now they're removing the bezel so there's no way to put it inside any sort of protective case. I might as well just go back to a landline, because I won't want to take it out of my house.
It seems like an even better solution would be to eliminate commuting for the 50% of people who don't always need to be physically present to do their job.
It seems that MS got the idea in its head that the walled garden is the reason people use these things. I don't think it is, people use them despite it.
It's already possible to write an application that will run on any platform with things like Java and Web applications, so long as the platform allows it. It doesn't matter because the platform people have to choose to allow applications to run on it (e.g. Apple won't allow Java on iOS, despite having no technical reason) and the application people have to write for it (Microsoft would never port Office to a universal runtime)
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Old person here. Back when I was a teenager, before you could stream movies and almost nobody had a "big screen tv", we would often just drive to a movie theater and pick something to watch based on the posters on the wall. We did end up watching a lot of shitty movies, but also a lot of great movies we otherwise never would have seen. There was also something abouy going into a movie having absolutely no idea what it was about or if it was any good. Overall, I miss the experience.
In Soviet America. bank rob you.
IMO, TypeScript is the only good thing Microsoft has ever produced (well their old corded mouse was decent). It emits readable JS, given that I don't see the risk. If they do something bad with it then I can just work off the compiled JS files.
Because nobody would prefer to run an 8-year-old version of Linux over the current ones.
Linux.
Stallman is looking at the naming as an issue of who gets credit. For everyone else, the point of the OS having a name is primarily to denote where something can be run. If I have some software package that "runs on Linux" that means it runs on Linux, whether or not it depends on some other available software that also runs on Linux. That is why Android isn't "Linux", even though it uses the Linux kernel - Android software depends on things that are only available on Android. Likewise, "GNU" doesn't mean anything, software written for "GNU/Linux" will not run on Windows even if you have all the GNU tools installed, whereas it's likely to run on Linux with musl and busybox.
Proprietary software and its' creators aren't evil, it's something even worse - suboptimal.
The difference for me is that I've never had to jiggle any of my 1/4" cables to make them stop crackling, and then stay absolutely still so it doesn't happen again.
Sad but completely foreseeable, or at least it should have been by them. Of all tht things that could hinder Linux adoption, requirements to use Windows-only proprietary software is the one thing that can't be overcome in a reasonable fashion but should also have been easy to quantify. What were they expecting to happen when their organization apparently depended on hundreds of different Windows-only applications?
The laptop with the "best" keyboard is one of the ones that has a mechanical keyboard in it. They exist, but it's a bit impractical. Short of that it comes down to how much you're willing to sacrifice in terms of size and weight, and that will be different for everyone.
The same thing that happens when a developer loses interest in a project. Either someone steps up to maintain it or it sits in stasis until then. It's certainly a better situation to be in than to be stuck with closed source stuff after the company goes under or stops supporting it.
Maybe there isn't a void. I've never lived in a "food desert", but I've been poor, and I would never buy produce. It's expensive. It goes bad quickly, so a lot of it just ends up getting thrown out, unless you're making frequent trips to buy them, which is expensive and time consuming not to mention the time-consuming preparation. Every now and then the produce is bad right out of the store and the money was just wasted.
I've never had a can of Spaghettios go to waste because it was rotten on the inside, or because I was too busy to use it within three days after I bought it.
The difference is that when I buy a season of a show, I'm buying a season of a show, not a pile of shit that also happens to contain one show that I want to watch.
Why wouldn't a national sales tax fall under "regulating interstate commerce" like pretty much everything else the federal government does?
> new Surface Laptop that comes with Windows 10 S
He should have kept the piece of paper, at least it doesn't require that you buy a pen from Microsoft to write on it.
I wait until some manager comes by my desk and asks me to stop whatever I'm working on and fix whatever bug someone just complained about.
So they already had the curved screens that make it impossible to use a glass screen protector, and now they're removing the bezel so there's no way to put it inside any sort of protective case. I might as well just go back to a landline, because I won't want to take it out of my house.
Since they're going to allow them this year, "Cannes kicks can on canning Netflix net flicks"
It seems like an even better solution would be to eliminate commuting for the 50% of people who don't always need to be physically present to do their job.
This will work well, as long as you never access sensitive information through the web browser. Because nobody ever does that.
> .htm file
Thanks for reminding me about that particular bit of idiocy. I had almost forgotten.
It seems that MS got the idea in its head that the walled garden is the reason people use these things. I don't think it is, people use them despite it.
Don't knock the Night Light thing. It's great. I know this because I've had a program for years that does that.
I always send them a word file that contains a picture of my resume.
Dell will take off around $80 if you forgo Windows when they allow the option.
It's already possible to write an application that will run on any platform with things like Java and Web applications, so long as the platform allows it. It doesn't matter because the platform people have to choose to allow applications to run on it (e.g. Apple won't allow Java on iOS, despite having no technical reason) and the application people have to write for it (Microsoft would never port Office to a universal runtime)